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Pathfinders(Reprint)
A Global History of Exploration
by Felipe Fernández-Armesto
Paperback, 464 Pages, Published 2007 by W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN-13: 978-0-393-33091-5, ISBN: 0-393-33091-5

""A brilliant and readable book...a rich study of humankind's restless spirit."—Candice Millard, New York Times Book Review Greeted with coast-to-coast acclaim on publication, Fernández-Armesto's ambitious history of world exploration sets a new standard. Presenting the subject for the first time on a truly global scale, Fernández-Armesto tracks the pathfinders who, over the past five millennia, lay down the routes of conta ..."






Our America(1st Edition)
A Hispanic History of the United States
by Felipe Fernández-Armesto
Paperback, 416 Pages, Published 2014 by W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN-13: 978-0-393-34982-5, ISBN: 0-393-34982-9

"“A rich and moving chronicle for our very present.” —Julio Ortega, New York Times Book Review The United States is still typically conceived of as an offshoot of England, with our history unfolding east to west beginning with the first English settlers in Jamestown. This view overlooks the significance of America’s Hispanic past. With the profile of the United States increasingly Hispanic, the importance of recovering the Hispanic dimen ..."






The Americas(Reprint)
A Hemispheric History (Modern Library Chronicles)
by Felipe Fernández-Armesto
Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 2006 by Modern Library
ISBN-13: 978-0-8129-7554-3, ISBN: 0-8129-7554-5

"In this groundbreaking work, leading historian Felipe Fernández-Armesto tells the story of our hemisphere as a whole, showing why it is impossible to understand North, Central, and South America in isolation without turning to the intertwining forces that shape the region. With imagination, thematic breadth, and his trademark wit, Fernández-Armesto covers a range of cultural, political, and social subjects, taking us from the dawn of hu ..."






Our America
A Hispanic History of the United States
by Felipe Fernández-Armesto
416 Pages, Published 2014 by W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN-13: 978-0-393-24285-0, ISBN: 0-393-24285-4

"53 D. G. Gutiérrez, The Columbia History of Latinos in the United States since 1960 (New York: Columbia University Press, 2004), 45–46. 54 HayesBautista, op .cit., 31. 55Ibid.,93. 56 Genova, op. cit., 9. 57Ibid., 77–79. 58 HayesBautista, op. cit., 32–36; McWilliams, op. cit., 233–35. 59McWilliams, op.cit., 230–31. 60Ibid., 247. 61 Ibid, 250. 62 D. Montejano, Anglos and Mexicans in the Making of Texas, 1836–1986 (Austin: University of ..."






1(1st Edition)
The Medieval Frontiers of Latin Christendom: Expansion, Contraction, Continuity (The Expansion of Latin Europe, 1000-1500)
by Felipe Fernández-Armesto, James Muldoon, Professor James Muldoon
Hardcover, 418 Pages, Published 2008 by Routledge
ISBN-13: 978-0-7546-5973-0, ISBN: 0-7546-5973-9

"The aim of this first volume in the series "The Expansion of Latin Europe" is to sketch the outlines of medieval expansion, illustrating some of the major topics that historians have examined in the course of demonstrating the links between medieval and modern experiences. The articles reprinted here show that European expansion began not in 1492 following Columbus's voyages but earlier as European Christian society re-arose from the ru ..."






2(1st Edition)
Internal Colonization in Medieval Europe (The Expansion of Latin Europe, 1000-1500)
by Editor-James Muldoon, Felipe Fernández-Armesto, Dr Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
Hardcover, 410 Pages, Published 2008 by Routledge
ISBN-13: 978-0-7546-5972-3, ISBN: 0-7546-5972-0

"Around the year 1000 Rodulfus Glaber described France as being in the throes of a building boom. He may have been the first writer to perceive the early medieval period as a Dark Age that was ending to be replaced by a better world. In the articles gathered here distinguished medieval historians discuss the ways in which this transformation took place. European society was becoming more stable, the climate was improving, and the popula ..."






Pathfinders
A Global History of Exploration
by Felipe Fernández-Armesto
432 Pages, Published 2007 by W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN-13: 978-0-393-24247-8, ISBN: 0-393-24247-1

"Felipe Fernández-Armesto. 3. C. Varela (ed), Cristobal Colón: textos y documentos completos, 2 vols. (Madrid, 1984), 170—6. . A. Rumeu de Armas (ed ), El Tratado de Tordesillas y su proyección (Madrid, 1992), 207—9;]. Cortesao, ' Joio II y el tratado de Tordesillas,' ibid. 93—101. . R. Ezquerra, 'LasJuntas de Toro y Burgos,' in Rumeu de Armas (ed.), El Tratado de Tordesillas, i. I 5 5; 'La idea del antimeridiano,' in A. Teixeira da M ..."






Out of Our Minds(1st Edition)
What We Think and How We Came to Think It
by Felipe Fernández-Armesto, Felipe Fernand#225, Ndezand#8211
Hardcover, 480 Pages, Published 2019 by University Of California Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-520-33107-5, ISBN: 0-520-33107-9

""A stimulating history of how the imagination interacted with its sibling psychological faculties—emotion, perception and reason—to shape the history of human mental life."—The Wall Street Journal To imagine—to see what is not there—is the startling ability that has fueled human development and innovation through the centuries. As a species we stand alone in our remarkable capacity to refashion the world after the picture in our minds. ..."






Our America(1st Edition)
A Hispanic History of the United States
by Felipe Fernández-Armesto
Hardcover, 416 Pages, Published 2014 by W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN-13: 978-0-393-23953-9, ISBN: 0-393-23953-5

"An eminent scholar finds a new American history in the Hispanic past of our diverse nation. The United States is still typically conceived of as an offshoot of England, with our history unfolding east to west beginning with the first English settlers in Jamestown. This view overlooks the significance of America’s Hispanic past. With the profile of the United States increasingly Hispanic, the importance of recovering the Hispanic dimensi ..."






Pathfinders(1st Edition)
A Global History of Exploration
by Felipe Fernández-Armesto, Well-Illustrated
Hardcover, 446 Pages, Published 2006 by Oxford University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-929590-6, ISBN: 0-19-929590-5

"Explorers forged the infrastructure of global history, first by finding the routes of migration that sundered human cultures, then - after millennia of divergence - by finding the routes that linked them up again. Pathfinders tells the epic story of how the route-finders did it: who they were, where they came from, where they went, how they coped with the unknown, how they developed the techniques and technologies they needed, how they ..."






Civilizations
Culture, Ambition, and the Transformation of Nature
by Felipe Fernández-Armesto
Hardcover, Published 2002 by Key Porter Books
ISBN-13: 978-1-55263-165-2, ISBN: 1-55263-165-6






The Oxford Illustrated History of the World
by Felipe Fernández-Armesto
448 Pages, Published 2019 by Oxford University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-106719-8, ISBN: 0-19-106719-9

"Flores, J., The Mogor as Venomous Hydra: Forging the Mughal-Portuguese Frontier, Journal of Early Modern History 19 (2015), 539–62. ... and Europe: Legitimations of War and the Formation of European Identity in the Early Modern Period, Journal of Early Modern History 11 (2007), 63–86. ... Biographical Dictionary of American Indian History to 1900 (Revised edn, New York: Checkmark Books, 2001)."






City as a Classroom
International scientific and practical conference
by Maxim Lepskiy, Vitalii Lunov, Oleg Maltsev, Felipe Fernández-Armesto, Michael Batty, Oleksandr Sahaidak, Jerome Krase, Carol Highsmith, Charles Landry, Eduardo Almeida, Dwight Wilson, Ryan Bishop, Avi Nardia, Liudmyla Fylypovych, Spiro N. Pollalis, Bryan Darr, Michael Hynes, Ellen Dunham-Jones, Irina Lopatyuk
184 Pages, Published by Accent Graphics Communications & Publishing
ISBN-13: 978-1-77192-571-6, ISBN: 1-77192-571-X

"... suburban subdivisions that lack the social infrastructure where they can meet with, learn from, and gain social support ... From the Star-C website In 1994MarjyStagmeier wrote Real Estate Asset Management: Executive Strategies in Profit Making, an industry “bible” in its third printing. ... Stagmeier made significant structural repairs, but the most important change was that she converted one apartment ..."






The European Opportunity
by Felipe Fernández-Armesto
382 Pages, Published 2019 by Routledge
ISBN-13: 978-1-351-89029-8, ISBN: 1-351-89029-8

"See Penrose, op. cit., pp. ... "Perhaps we should start anew to test, cautiously and scientifically, the impact of the Renaissance on the various aspects of civilization . ... Erwin Panofsky, "The History of the Theory of Human Proportions as a Reflection of the History of Styles," in Meaning in the Visual Arts, New York, 1955, pp."






Out of Our Minds
What We Think and How We Came to Think It
by Felipe Fernández-Armesto
480 Pages, Published 2019 by Univ Of California Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-520-97436-4, ISBN: 0-520-97436-0

"What We Think and How We Came to Think It Felipe Fernández-Armesto. Felipe. Fernández-Armesto. 'Felipe Fernández-Armesto is one of the most brilliant historians currently at work. All his books are bravura displays of erudition, fizzing  ..."






The Malaspina Expedition 1789-1794 / ... / Volume II / Panama to the Philippines
by Andrew David, Felipe Fernández-Armesto, Glyndwr Williams
509 Pages, Published 2018 by Routledge
ISBN-13: 978-1-351-81416-4, ISBN: 1-351-81416-8

"... snails stuck to its different globules (Helix janthina,1 described by the same author), that gave off a beautiful purple dye. On the following two days the winds in the third quadrant continued moderate, tending rather to the west, generally ... tack, to a westerly course, for at nine o'clock the wind had shifted suddenly to NNW and north and increased to storm force, ... The wind, however, dropped completely soon after noon on ..."






The Malaspina Expedition 1789-1794 / ... / Volume III / Manila to Cadiz
by Andrew David, Felipe Fernández-Armesto, Glyndwr Williams
514 Pages, Published 2018 by Routledge
ISBN-13: 978-1-351-81401-0, ISBN: 1-351-81401-X

"... 1789–94, Tomo VIII: Trabajos zoológicos, geológicos, químicos y fisicos en Guayaquil de Antonio Pineda Ramírez, Madrid, 1996. ... Ferrer Maldonado, Lorenzo, Imagen del mundo sobre la esfera, cosmografía, y geografía teórica de planetas y arte de navegar, Alcalá, 1626. ... Fisher, Robin, and Johnston, Hugh, eds, From Maps to Metaphors: the Pacific World of George Vancouver, Vancouver, 1993."






The Expansion of Latin Europe, 1000-1500 Ser.
Internal Colonization in Medieval Europe
by James Muldoon, Felipe Fernández-Armesto
410 Pages, Published 2017 by Routledge
ISBN-13: 978-1-351-92701-7, ISBN: 1-351-92701-9

"... di storia italiana, Ser. III, Vol. ν (Turin, 1900), p. 28. E. Collas, Valentine de Milan, duchesse d'Orléans (3rd ed., Paris, 1911), p. 52. 18 Lucy Toulmin Smith, ed., Expeditions to Prussia and the Holy Land made by 19 20 22 Henry, Earl of Derby (afterwards King Henry ... (Brussels, 1863-1877), XIV, 80-82. H. Moranville , 'Une course de Bar-surSeine. Delisle, 'Notes sur quelques manuscrits de Baron Dauphin de Verna,' Bibliothèq ..."






The European Opportunity
by Felipe Fernández-Armesto
382 Pages, Published 2017
ISBN-13: 978-1-315-23985-9, ISBN: 1-315-23985-X

"These 15 articles follow on from those in The Global Opportunity in that they examine how and why the Europeans expanded worldwide."






Hakluyt Society, Third Ser.
The Malaspina Expedition 1789-1794 : Journal of the Voyage by Alejandro Malaspina. Volume I: Cádiz to Panamá
by Andrew David, Glyndwr Williams, Felipe Fernández-Armesto, Dr. Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
Digital, 448 Pages, Published 2016 by The Hakluyt Society
ISBN-13: 978-1-317-02463-7, ISBN: 1-317-02463-X

"Among the voyages of exploration and surveying in the late 18th century, that of Alejandro Malaspina best represents the high ideals and scientific interests of the Enlightenment. Italian-born, Malaspina entered the Spanish navy in 1774. In September 1788 he and fellow-officer Jose Bustamante submitted a plan to the Ministry of Marine for a voyage of survey and inspection to Spanish territories in the Americas and Philippines. The exped ..."



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